Senior Inspector Bong (Nick Cheung) sends officer Ming (William Chan) undercover into a drug cartel in hopes of bringing down drug lord Yeung (Shaun Tam). However, a raid operation goes awry, leaving Yeung raging for revenge and Ming embedded in the cartel as conflicts escalate violently. Meanwhile, drug manufacturer Ying Xiu (Isabella Leong) arrives in Hong Kong looking to complete one last job, but her daughter gets into an accident. Bong uses Ying Xiu's daughter to blackmail her into cooperating with the police and laying a trap for Yeung.
- 3/24/2024
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Upcoming Hong Kong comedy will star Hins Cheung and Ivana Wong.
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is set to release comedy Everything Under Control over the Chinese New Year period in mid-January 2023, buoyed by the recent commercial success of a string of Hong Kong productions.
It marks the second feature of director Ying Chi Wen and stars popular Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung in his second leading film role, Ivana Wong of recent hit comedy Table For Six and Michael Ning (Port Of Call) along with upcoming actors Jeffrey Ngai and Joey Hung Ka-Ho. Ying’s feature debut...
Hong Kong’s Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp) is set to release comedy Everything Under Control over the Chinese New Year period in mid-January 2023, buoyed by the recent commercial success of a string of Hong Kong productions.
It marks the second feature of director Ying Chi Wen and stars popular Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung in his second leading film role, Ivana Wong of recent hit comedy Table For Six and Michael Ning (Port Of Call) along with upcoming actors Jeffrey Ngai and Joey Hung Ka-Ho. Ying’s feature debut...
- 10/31/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
- 4/2/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
- 12/7/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
„Spider Lilies”, the second feature by Taiwanese Zero Chou, upon its release in 2007 was an important and pioneering movie and gained a loyal audience, also outside the country in some conservative Asian societies. Moreover, the story tackling the new generation exploring its sexuality and identity through the internet was something fresh and new. Finding leads willing to star in a tale about female love was problematic, so the director was searching for actresses also outside Taiwan (and Hong Kong star Isabella Leong was cast). The director, a respected documentarian, and openly lesbian, whose debut feature focused on drag queens, became a significant representative of LGBT+ filmmakers, as her movies’ protagonists are mostly queer.
“Spider Lillies” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Unfortunately, watched in 2021, “Spider Lilies” lost most of its advantages coming from its pioneering and bold charm. While the visual side and sensual color palette still impresses,...
“Spider Lillies” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Unfortunately, watched in 2021, “Spider Lilies” lost most of its advantages coming from its pioneering and bold charm. While the visual side and sensual color palette still impresses,...
- 11/27/2021
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
Once more with rather less feeling: after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs,” acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui returns to the work of celebrated 20th century author Eileen Chang with “Love After Love,” a not-at-all-short adaptation of a Chang short story laboring under the English title “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier.” Hui has assembled something of an all-star lineup, with the young leads played by rising actors Sandra Ma and Eddie Peng, the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto on scoring duties and Dp Christopher Doyle returning to the scene, if not quite the time period, of his greatest Wong Kar-wai collaboration, “In the Mood For Love.” Despite all this promise,
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
Tracking the very gentle wising-up of a naive, wide-eyed ingenue over the course of a few eventful pre-war years, the film begins as Weilong (Ma), a Shanghainese student come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her stifling father’s influence,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
"A pleasure in never feeling pleased." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the Hong Kong romantic drama Love After Love, which is screening out of competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The latest film from Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, this looks sultry and sumptuous. It is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story, set in Hong Kong shortly before the start of World War II. Sandra Ma stars as a young girl who falls into her aunt's game of luring rich men. But then surprise, she finds herself genuinely attracted to playboy George Qiao, whose aim is to marry a wealthy girl to maintain his own high-end class lifestyle. Co-starring Eddie Peng as George, along with Faye Yu, Ning Chang, Wei Fan, and Isabella Leong. Featuring some gorgeous cinematography by Dp Christopher Doyle. At first glance, this has the feeling of Wong Kar Wai's beloved In the Mood for Love.
- 9/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sylvia Chang is known to be a prolific artist, with a record of several films a year as an actress, as well as a new project as a director at least every three to four years. After “Run Papa Run” in 2008, however, it would go on to be seven year before her next directorial “Murmur of the Hearts” would be released, which proves to be a strong return behind the camera for the veteran artist.
Murmur of the Hearts is screening at the Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
“Murmur of the Hearts” is centered around three characters, siblings Yu-mei and Yu-nan and Yu-mei’s boxer boyfriend Hsiang. All three are haunted; haunted by memories of their rocky relationships with their parents. Yu-mei and Yu-nan were separated in childhood when their mother left their island home on Lyudao, or “Green Island”, and moved to Taipei with Yu-mei, to get away from her abusive husband.
Murmur of the Hearts is screening at the Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Taiwan Cinema Online
“Murmur of the Hearts” is centered around three characters, siblings Yu-mei and Yu-nan and Yu-mei’s boxer boyfriend Hsiang. All three are haunted; haunted by memories of their rocky relationships with their parents. Yu-mei and Yu-nan were separated in childhood when their mother left their island home on Lyudao, or “Green Island”, and moved to Taipei with Yu-mei, to get away from her abusive husband.
- 6/13/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Pang Ho-cheung’s latest film “Missbehaviour” is a light and bubbly comedy of friends, held together by a downpour of gags, ranging from slapstick, to sarcastic, to toilet humour vulgarity. The Hong Kong director is a bona fide master of grown-up comedy, being responsible of many excellent additions to the genre, from the popular thirty-something romance trilogy to the more extreme “Vulgaria”, “Sdu: Sex Duties Unit” (as writer) and “Va”.
“Missbehavior” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) 2019
Not a proper Lunar New Year’s movie, “Missbehaviour” is in fact a reminder of the importance of getting together and not neglecting friendship. It is indeed what New Year’s holiday is all about – friends and family – and therefore it fits quite well in the festive spirit. The film focuses on a group of 8 close friends, members of a WhatsApp chat called “Ba Po” that for a series of...
“Missbehavior” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) 2019
Not a proper Lunar New Year’s movie, “Missbehaviour” is in fact a reminder of the importance of getting together and not neglecting friendship. It is indeed what New Year’s holiday is all about – friends and family – and therefore it fits quite well in the festive spirit. The film focuses on a group of 8 close friends, members of a WhatsApp chat called “Ba Po” that for a series of...
- 7/5/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong director Pang Ho Cheung, the man behind comedy hits like Men Suddenly In Black and Vulgaria, is back this Lunar New Year with his new film Missbehavior. His all-star cast includes Miriam Yeung, Gigi Leung, Dada Chan, June Lam, Isabella Leong and many others. Thanks to Australian distributor Magnum Films, we have five double passes for Missbehavior to give to our readers. For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps: 1) Like the Magnum Films Facebook page, and 2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]screenanarchy.com This competition will close at 3pm on January 29. Good luck!...
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- 1/23/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Philip Yung’s Port Of Call to close the festival.
Sylvia Chang’s Murmur Of The Hearts will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff, March 23-April 6), while Philip Yung’s Port Of Call will close the event.
Chang was previously named as the Filmmaker in Focus at this year’s Hkiff, which will screen 14 of her films. Murmur Of The Hearts, in which she goes back to her Taiwanese roots, stars Isabella Leong, Joseph Chang, Lawrence Ko and Lee Sinje.
Yung’s Port Of Call is a crime drama starring Aaron Kwok.
Other Hong Kong films receiving their world premiere at Hkiff include Lau Ho-Leung’s Two Thumbs Up, starring Francis Ng, Simon Yam and Leo Ku, and Fruit Chan’s documentary My City about well-known local writer Xi Xi.
Hkiff has also collaborated once again with Youku on an omnibus film, which will receive its receive its world premiere at the...
Sylvia Chang’s Murmur Of The Hearts will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff, March 23-April 6), while Philip Yung’s Port Of Call will close the event.
Chang was previously named as the Filmmaker in Focus at this year’s Hkiff, which will screen 14 of her films. Murmur Of The Hearts, in which she goes back to her Taiwanese roots, stars Isabella Leong, Joseph Chang, Lawrence Ko and Lee Sinje.
Yung’s Port Of Call is a crime drama starring Aaron Kwok.
Other Hong Kong films receiving their world premiere at Hkiff include Lau Ho-Leung’s Two Thumbs Up, starring Francis Ng, Simon Yam and Leo Ku, and Fruit Chan’s documentary My City about well-known local writer Xi Xi.
Hkiff has also collaborated once again with Youku on an omnibus film, which will receive its receive its world premiere at the...
- 2/26/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Blu-rayby Peter Dimako When the first “Mummy” came out back in 1999, I was semi-impressed. I felt the film was filled with cheesy humor despite impressive effects as well as a charming male and female lead in Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. The next film came plummeting downhill for the most part and introduced the “Scorpion King” character which opened up the way for a film of the same title starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. This was then followed up by the recent straight-to-video release “The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior” starring Michael Copon and wannabe actor Randy Couture of Ufc fame. Now we have the third installment in “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” with martial arts legend Jet Li stepping into the picture. Being a big Indiana Jones fan, I would never have thought I would ever say...
- 12/3/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Which is the most shocking transformation in "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"? Is it when a dead warrior transforms himself into a three-headed dragon? How about when skeletons arise out of their tomb in the Great Wall of China to turn into columns of soldiers from the Ray Harryhausen brigade? Or is it the way Rachel Weisz has turned into Maria Bello?
This Mummy is an ancient emperor (Jet Li) whose rampage ended when he was...
This Mummy is an ancient emperor (Jet Li) whose rampage ended when he was...
- 8/1/2008
- by By KYLE SMITH
- NYPost.com
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